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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

So if entrepreneurs want to pioneer new ideas with a lean model, my advice is to use low cost alternatives to build differentiality that can be protected from institutions with far more money than ethics, creativity, or innovation-- other than skirting the loopholes in our justice system regarding protection of IP, and honing predatory tactics.

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Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets…How Do You Protect Your Creations?

Up and Running

In the simplest terms, intellectual property (IP) pertains to things you create with your mind; not the ideas themselves, but the expression of the ideas in some form. There are four common types of IP: . You wouldn’t leave money out in the open to be stolen, so why leave your valuable IP exposed to possible theft? Copyrights.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. When someone clicks on one of your traditional CPC or CPM ads, what do you know about them? You know the content of the ad, so you know a little bit about what theyre interested in. In other words, not very much.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. For example, the city of Amsterdam is currently tendering for a third ’tech’ university in the city together with an investment fund and IP attached. To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class.

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Thoughts from the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 in Brussels

VC Cafe

Did you know that Professors and Faculty at Stanford get to keep the IP (intellectual property) or their inventions? They found that contrary to the popular belief, they make more money from donations, by incentivizing faculty to commercialize their ideas, rather than owning all the IP and let it sit of the shelf.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. company based in Sweden. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it’s easy to stand against something. it takes no intelligence. try standing for something.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Users also asked that IMVU identify and aggressively act to eliminate the source of such products up to and including IP bans. In fact, users asked that IMVU make a determination as to who was deliberately passing Unfit for IMVU products into the catalog and stop them from performing peer review on either their main accounts or their alts.

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